[ExI] Physics versus psychology
spike
spike66 at att.net
Fri Oct 29 15:10:11 UTC 2010
> ...On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027161452.htm
> >
> > Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene'
>
> Why is it called a 'Liberal Gene', and not a 'Conservative Gene'?
>
> Or a 'Politics Gene', with Liberal and Conservative alleles??
>
> Ben Zaiboc
Ja I felt a little slighted by that too. Where's the libertarian gene?
Shouldn't there be a capitalist gene? I think they took undue liberties in
naming it. I wouldn't be surprised if it started as kind of an inside joke,
like calling cosmological inflation theories "big bang" but the name stuck.
spike
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